I will be presenting at the Information Worker Community Day 2010 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This event is jointly organized by the Malaysia SharePoint User Group and Microsoft Innovation Center (Malaysia).

In many organizations, business data is stored across different systems, legacy systems or custom applications.  Traditionally accessing these data and making it viewable in a web pages, making it searchable requires an enormous amount of custom code.

I will be speaking on the new functionality inside SharePoint Server 2010’s Business Connectivity Services (BCS), evolved from the 2007’s Business Data Catalog, that makes it extremely easy to display, edit these information and searchable within SharePoint 2010.

Event Details:

Event Details

Date:   10^th December 2009, Thursday

Time:   9.00am – 5.00pm

Venue:

Monash University
Jalan Lagoon Selatan, Bandar Sunway,
46150, Selangor Darul Ehsan
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For more information on the event, please visit http://spugmalaysia.org/iwcommunityday.aspx

Applies to:  SharePoint Server 2010 Beta (Nov 2009), Office Web Apps Beta (Nov 2009)

If you are like me, when you have installed SharePoint Server 2010, you would want to check out the new Office Web Applications and see how it works with SharePoint Server 2010. 

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The Office Web Applications consists 3 service applications which will be available after installation.  And once deployed, 3 additional site collection features will be added to the web application, if these service applications are associated with the web application.

The much awaited SharePoint 2010 Public Beta is now available now.  You can download the trial here:

http://sharepoint2010.microsoft.com/try-it/Pages/Trial.aspx

And I am sure you are eager to install it right away :)  Well, this is only beta, so the installation will not be as straight forward as the released version.

Do check out the preliminary system requirements before you start the installation here

And also check out the following useful resources which will help you in your installation and the journey, and these articles have helped me a lot.

Useful Resources:

Installation Notice for SharePoint 2010 Public Beta (Jie Li)

Grant “Replicating Directory Changes” (KB303972)

User Profile Sync Setup in SharePoint Server 2010 Beta (Jie Li)

Path to User Profile Synchronization success in SharePoint 2010 Beta (SharePoint Team Blog)

If you have downloaded and installed the Service Pack, please take note that Service Pack 2 will reset your product license key and product expiration date as though you are running on a trial license, which will expire in 180 days.  Though the expiration date will not affect the functionality of SharePoint until the expiration date.

For more information on this, check out the post by the SharePoint Team at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/05/21/attention-important-information-on-service-pack-2.aspx

Service Pack 2 for Office System 2007 and Office Server 2007 has been released on April 28th.

For more details on what is in the Service Pack 2 could be found here:

• Description of WSS 3.0 SP2
• Description of MOSS 2007 SP2
• Description of SharePoint Designer 2007 SP2

More information could also be found at Updates Resource Center for SharePoint Products & Technologies

There is no media for the SP2, below are the links to download the binaries:

• WSS 3.0 SP2
• MOSS 2007 SP2
• SharePoint Designer 2007 SP2

There is a new release of the SharePoint SDK, version 1.5 which contains the following updates:

• A new of version of the Business Data Catalog Definition Editor
• A few new search samples with regards to Federated Search:
  • Custom federated search web part with a credentials UI
  • Federated search SQL Server Connector
  • Federated search HTML to RSS Connector
  • Federated search Virtual Earth Map connector

The new SDK can be downloaded at:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6d94e307-67d9-41ac-b2d6-0074d6286fa9&displaylang=en

It is official now that the next version of SharePoint, which we used to call SharePoint 14 or SharePoint v.Next will be called SharePoint 2010.  You may notice that the term “Office” has been removed from the name.  So the MOSS acronym does not fit anymore.  You can read the details @ http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/14/microsoft-sharepoint-14-is-now-microsoft-sharepoint-2010.aspx

Microsoft has expanded its Window Server family with Windows 2008 Server foundation, which is mainly targetted at small businesses with 15 or fewer employees.  And of course it can grow with the business by providing the ability to upgrade to other editions of Windows Server.  Applications that have been certified for Windows Server 2008 can be deployed on Windows 2008 Server Foundation as well.

Windows 2008 Server Foundation can be deployed for the following uses:

• Core Infrastructure
• Active Directory
• Terminal Services
• Applications

More details could be found on Windows 2008 Server Foundation Home

Microsoft has made it official that SharePoint Designer 2007 is now a FREE download for everyone.  If you are new to SharePoint development, SharePoint Designer 2007 is one of the tool that you would probably used to design custom master pages, custom page layouts, workflows and custom aspx pages.

You can get more details on the product at the Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer Site

If you want to start downloading them, you can download here

You might have noticed that my blog seems like a new blog.  While upgrading my blog, I thought I have FTP down my old posts, however, they were no where to be found :(.  Guess it is one of those days and not an April Fool's joke.

Terribly sorry if you have bookmarked any post and the post was gone.  Maybe this is a hint that I should start a fresh and bring in new perspective and more interesting article to the blog.

Thank you for continuing your support.